The Young Stranger (1957)
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Family Drama |
Release Date - Feb 1, 1957 (USA) |
Run Time - 84 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Michael Betzold
Adapting a made-for-TV play that he had directed for the screen, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama. Tom Ditmar (James Daly) is a movie studio executive who has a strained relationship with his teenaged son Hal (James MacArthur). Hal is arrested after an incident in a movie theater in which he was provoked into slugging the manager, Grubbs (Whit Bissell). Hal is rude to the police officer, Sergeant Shipley (James Gregory). Tom Ditmar gets the charges dropped but doesn't believe his son's story. Hal goes back to talk to Grubbs to try to get him to tell his father what really happened.
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arrest, bonding [relationship], communication, conflict, executive, father, generation-gap, hitman, influence, manager, movie-theater, office, officer, police, problems, release, son, teenagers, truth, boy, stranger, youth
